“The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis”

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Please carefully read Martin Ridge’s article “The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis” (available on Blackboard). Make sure to consider it in the context of our discussions about westward expansion during the later half of the nineteenth-century.

Then, in a two page typed and well-organized/edited essay response, please address the following questions.

According to Martin Ridge, what was the Turner Thesis? What did Turner claim was the “principle function” of the frontier in American history and why? How did Turner’s thesis change many Americans’ understanding of American history?